Project Leader, Sustaining

This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You’ll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients. 

Baxter’s products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work. 

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives— where your purpose accelerates our mission. 

Your role at Baxter

You are a problem solver. Complex projects or unexpected challenges are just opportunities to bring your considerable abilities to use. Whether working independently or with a trusted team, you are always ready to take on a project and work hard to find solutions.

Your talent is needed across a wide variety of industries. As a Senior Project Lead you have a wide array of career choices yet are motivated by the opportunity to work in a company that supports innovation, professional development, and a purposeful mission

Your Team

The Sustaining Engineering Team, within Front Line Care (FLC) Engineering, is responsible for managing, directing, and coordinating engineering product design development/modifications of current model products and product lines. We are a team of inquisitive individuals who embrace a collaborative environment to take on sophisticated challenges that meet the needs of our patients. We often need to change directions and respond to issues to avoid disruptions in our fast-paced manufacturing environment. Together, we build and maintain a positive work environment.

What you'll be doing

As a Sustaining Project Lead, you will lead cross-functional project teams to complete sustaining projects from planning through implementation. This position is for a person invested in building their career as a project leader who is goal driven and enjoys working in a dedicated cross-functional team environment.

Your primary responsibilities will be to effectively organize and lead cross-functional project teams using your project management skills. Using your strong planning, organization, communication, and collaboration skills, you will lead a diverse scope of projects with limited supervision.  The Sustaining projects may include, projects aimed at enhancing product features of current products to ensure customer satisfaction, addressing quality issues, meeting new regulatory standards, or reducing costs.

You will lead one medium or multiple small projects that impact company performance. You will direct the activities of internal and external team members to meet project objectives. You will also implement design changes into production for current products and provide consultation support of other engineering projects.

You will proactively support continuous improvement opportunities and ongoing process improvements with the goal to continually build the group.

You must be a flexible, self-directed, organized, dependable, proactive, and persistent.  You will effectively plan and execute projects, coach project team members, solve problems, and make decisions with limited direction. In the role, will communicate both up and down the organization to effectively complete and provide status of the projects.

What you'll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering/technical field.

• 1-3 years of applied project management experience managing projects of various sizes.

• Demonstrated ability to communicate and negotiate with a diverse group of cross-functional stakeholders in Marketing, R&D, QA, Regulatory, Sourcing, and Operations.

• Strong communication (verbal, written, and presentation) skills.

• Attention to detail.

• Experience with managing projects in an agile environment is required.

Preferred background, but not required: 

• Applied experience with Microsoft Project as well as other Office Suite applications.

• Prior SAP experience (including creation of DIRs, BOMs, Routers, writing Engineering Changes).

• Project Management Professional (PMP certification).
   

Baxter is committed to supporting the needs for flexibility in the workplace. We do so through our flexible workplace policy which includes a requi